Thepips
Trade Member
As you may of noticed it rained just a little bit on the Saturday night. When I woke up on the Sunday morning I guessed I was in a little bit of bother as we were now sloping side to side
. Sure enough, we'd found the only soggy patch in the showground. We tried extricating ourselves by gently rocking backwards and forwards but no luck, so I tried a bit more throttle
oh:. Ian managed to struggle out by taking the car of the trailer but we were well and truly mired.
Many, many thanks to Jim for the tow with the Landie, Geo for having a decent tow rope, Ian for the loan of a strop to extend the tow a bit further so Jim was on hardstanding. In just a couple of minutes we were back on firmer ground.
I drove up to the main road but Gladys (our Monaco Knight) didn't feel right. The nearside outer was completely flat and virtually off the rim. We called the RAC who sent an ordinary van who told us "I can't do anything with that!". No Sh*t, Sherlock! We'd told them that when we called. After a few minutes chat and not a lot of help he went off and we settled down to another evening on the showground.
Monday morning we quickly found a local company in Newark that had the right size tyre but we did have to drive all the way to Travelworld for the special box spanner for the wheel trim. It's only a 200 mile round trip. Still, I've got it now and bought a few other bits and pieces as well! We were back at the showground at 2:30 and the tyre fitter had the new tyre on by 3:00! Astonishingly he didn't even take the wheel of the RV, just two tyre levers and the tyre was done.
Turned out the tyre wasn't punctured, the fitter surmised that all the tyre spinning in the mud had undone the valve extender
oh:
Despite the weather and the problems we had a great time and look forward to meeting up again.
Regards
Doug 'n Bar


Many, many thanks to Jim for the tow with the Landie, Geo for having a decent tow rope, Ian for the loan of a strop to extend the tow a bit further so Jim was on hardstanding. In just a couple of minutes we were back on firmer ground.
I drove up to the main road but Gladys (our Monaco Knight) didn't feel right. The nearside outer was completely flat and virtually off the rim. We called the RAC who sent an ordinary van who told us "I can't do anything with that!". No Sh*t, Sherlock! We'd told them that when we called. After a few minutes chat and not a lot of help he went off and we settled down to another evening on the showground.
Monday morning we quickly found a local company in Newark that had the right size tyre but we did have to drive all the way to Travelworld for the special box spanner for the wheel trim. It's only a 200 mile round trip. Still, I've got it now and bought a few other bits and pieces as well! We were back at the showground at 2:30 and the tyre fitter had the new tyre on by 3:00! Astonishingly he didn't even take the wheel of the RV, just two tyre levers and the tyre was done.
Turned out the tyre wasn't punctured, the fitter surmised that all the tyre spinning in the mud had undone the valve extender

Despite the weather and the problems we had a great time and look forward to meeting up again.
Regards
Doug 'n Bar